Introduction to Tuning
HCP

In the simplest terms, HCP
powered by Apache Metron is a streaming architecture created on top of Kafka and three main
types of Storm topologies: parsers, enrichment, and indexing. Each parser has its own topology
and there is also a highly performant, specialized spout-only topology for streaming PCAP data
to HDFS.

The HCP architecture can be tuned almost exclusively using a few primary Storm and Kafka
parameters along with a few Metron-specific options. You can think of the data flow as being
similar to water flowing through a pipe, and the majority of these options assist in tweaking
the various pipe widths in the system.